Chapter 500 Overlord's End
Assuming that Xiang Yu could remain sober and healthy, know the huge changes on the battlefield of Sishui Pavilion, and decisively issued a breakout order, it goes without saying that with his extraordinary divine power and superb martial arts, coupled with the bravery and unity of the Jiangdong soldiers who belong to him, even if the Western Chu army is defeated in this decisive battle, he is destined to suffer heavy losses. Xiang Yu is very sure that he will break out successfully like the Battle of Gaixia in history, and fleeing back to Pengcheng and returning to Huainan and Jiangdong to make a comeback. It is definitely not without hope.
But unfortunately, the hatred and jealousy towards the scum cousin had already penetrated Xiang Yu's mind and completely lost his mind. In addition, the long-term heavy blood loss made him blurry in his eyes. He could not see or see the surrounding situation and the huge changes in the battlefield situation. Xiang Yu became a dying beast that relied on instinct to act. He only knew that he was waving his steel spear and rushing left and right on the battlefield without distinguishing his enemy from his crazy poking. Even if he accidentally injured his soldiers, he would not know at all.
This of course made the poor Jiangdong soldiers of the Western Chu army. They could not rush forward to intercept the heavily armored soldiers of the Han army. They did not dare or bear to leave Xiang Yu behind and fled on their own. They could only try to protect their loyal Xiang Yu while watching the Han reinforcements approaching quickly. Countless Jiangdong soldiers shouted in tears, begging Xiang Yu to wake up as soon as possible, but there was no effect at all.
After a little delay, the Han army's reinforcements brigade had arrived at the scene. Without further ado, Li Shang, who was rushing to the front, roared and rushed towards Xiang Yu's flag with the Han army reinforcements. The strong Han army reinforcements were like a flood, quickly surrounding the isolated Xiang Yu's army's army. The encirclement circle was quickly shrinking and thickening, and the swords, spears and spears were like storms, slashing from all directions toward the besieged Jiangdong soldiers.
During this period, the Jiangdong soldiers could not resist the fear in their hearts and began to leave Xiang Yu and flee in the chaos. However, more Jiangdong soldiers firmly guarded around Xiang Yu, using a hasty round formation to fight with the Han soldiers to death. Even if this is a disaster, they are unwilling to leave Xiang Yu and break through on their own.
The rewards that Xiang Kang personally promised gradually began to spread among the Han army. He was inspired by the generous rewards. Countless Han soldiers rushed towards the Jiangdong soldiers of the Western Chu army who were already surrounded by heavy weapons. Various weapons were greeting the Jiangdong soldiers at all times, and chopping the Western Chu soldiers who followed Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu crossed the river north, then split the bodies, stabbed the spears into honeycombs, and their eyes were red and red, struck them forward desperately to win the opportunity to cut off Xiang Yu's head with their own hands.
However, even so, the Han soldiers still did not shake the determination of Jiangdong soldiers to protect Xiang Yu. Most of the Jiangdong soldiers were still united under Xiang Yu's flag and fought against Han soldiers with several times their strength.
The troops of Zhou Lan, the Western Chu army closest to Xiang Yu's flag, did not give up. Even though the soldiers under his command had begun to flee, Zhou Lan still insisted on repeatedly rushing towards the position where Xiang Yu's flag was, intending to gather together with Xiang Yu's direct army and join forces to break through.
The same is true for Ji Bu's army, which has been surrounded by three Han troops, even though there are enemies from all directions, Ji Bu did not lead the army to flee south. He is still leading the soldiers who have already formed a round formation to fight hard and prepare to take on the important task of protecting Xiang Yu's retreat.
In the face of absolute military disadvantage, all efforts of Zhou Lan and Ji Bu became futile. After the military genius Zhou Shu led a reinforcement brigade to the scene, he had just confirmed that Xiang Yu had been surrounded. Zhou Shu immediately led his army to detour from the right wing of the Han army, interspersed and attacked the junction of Ji Bu and Zhou Lan and cut off the road connection between Ji Bu and Zhou Lan and Xiang Yu. He would rather give the defeated Western Chu army in the south than give Xiang Yu any hope of breaking through. Of course, this is related to Uncle Zhou's current situation. Otherwise, Uncle Zhou could be assured to go south and give priority to other Western Chu troops in the south.
Perhaps it was a rebirth. When Uncle Zhou did this, Xiang Yu, who was almost in a mad state, suddenly recovered some reason. The one-eyed person who had suffered severe blood loss and was almost blind, also saw the surrounding situation clearly again. Then at this time, Xiang Yu, who was shocked, remembered to yell and order his direct army to break through the south. The soldiers of Jiangdong who had finally waited for this order were also excited and cheered, and quickly surrounded Xiang Yu and rushed to the south desperately.
But it was too late to do so. Even though they rely on the Jiangdong soldiers to fight to the death, after paying an extremely heavy price, Xiang Yu's troops barely combined with Zhou Lan's remaining troops. However, when they continued to break south, they were stubbornly intercepted by the Han army's troops who had already penetrated into the front in advance. No matter how crazy the attack was, they had no way to rush through the intercepting positions of the Han army, and they could not completely kill the Han army and the densely arranged in front of them.
What's worse is more than that. At other positions on the battlefield, the two armies of Liu Laosan and Ding Gu had collapsed. Wang Fen's troops were surrounded, with less than half of the troops left. Ji Bu's troops were also surrounded. Although the remaining troops were more than Wang Fen, they completely lost their mobility because they were forced to form a round formation to fight and could no longer move. On the battlefield further south, they quickly defeated the two commandos of the Western Chu Army, which had weak troops, and the first and sixth teams of the Han army's front attacks left and right, and joined forces with the second and third teams of the front to surround the Eastern Secret headquarters of the Western Chu Army, leaving the Western Chu Army completely at a passive disadvantage of fighting on their own. Not to mention that they were rescued and responded to each other, it was difficult to break through the siege and escape alone.
Of course, the Western Chu army still has a little hope, that is, if the battalion guards led by Master Xiang Bo Xiang can attack decisively and rescue the trapped Western Chu army, then the Western Chu army may still have a little hope, but unfortunately, seeing the critical situation of the main force on the battlefield outside the camp, Master Xiang Bo Xiang not only did not muster up the courage to lead the army to attack, but on the contrary, he couldn't wait to start packing up the jewelry and was ready to leave the camp at any time and run away alone.
Under such circumstances, the Western Chu army could only rely on the instinct of survival to fight. From Xiang Yu himself to ordinary soldiers, they all rushed south with red eyes and rushed to the south. As soon as the soldiers in front fell down, the companions behind immediately made up, and they continued to move forward one after another, desperately waving their incomplete weapons to fight the dense enemies in front of them, fighting for the position space with their Han soldiers foot by foot, forcing their bloody bodies to open up a bloody road in the jungle of sword spear.
Of course, doing this is destined to be useless. The Han army's interception team was defeated and two were immediately formed. They continued to cycle, like a wall of iron, blocking Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu army, and also made the crowd of the Western Chu army continue to melt and shrink like the snowballs of the sun. No matter how the Western Chu army rushed left and right, they could not rush out of the vast sea of the Han army soldiers.
The troops of Wang Fen, the Western Chu army who broke south alone, collapsed and attacked south in despair. Wang Fen's army was first cut into two halves by the Han army from the waist, and then divided and surrounded. Countless soldiers surrendered, and Wang Fen was soon left with less than 500 soldiers. When more Han soldiers completely submerged his flag, his flag soon disappeared on the battlefield. Wang Fen himself was more than ten injured, and finally died of all his strength. The remaining twenty Western Chu soldiers around him could only choose to throw down their weapons and kneel down to surrender.
Dongfang Mi's troops also collapsed. With the advantage of being close, Dongfang Mi brought some of the defeated generals to escape back to the Western Chu military camp by chance. Then the Han army pursued the Han army followed his flag and rushed into the Western Chu military camp that had not been built so far. Master Xiang Bo Xiang decisively threw the Western Chu military camp and took the lead in fleeing south with his precious son Xiang You, soft jewelry and a few troops. The middle and rear troops of the Western Chu military camp, which were mostly wounded, also collapsed and fled out of the camp and fled all over the mountains and fields. Han cavalry with insufficient melee ability took the opportunity to chase after it, just like wolves chasing rabbits and sheep, chopping and killing the defeated Western Chu army into pieces all over the ground, beheading countless prisoners.
The Western Chu army led by Ji Bu has been fighting tenaciously, but as the fierce battle continues, there are only three thousand people left by Ji Bu, who are completely annihilated by the Han army, and there is only a matter of time left.
The slogan of surrendering and not killing had already resounded throughout the battlefield. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the exhausted Western Chu army also continued to appear in the army of the exhausted Western Chu army who threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees. This situation quickly became more and more. Xiang Yu, who had temporarily recovered his vision, kept roaring and firmly ordered the soldiers of the Western Chu army to kill these scum traitors. However, he still could not stop the waver from throwing down his weapons and running to the crowd of Han soldiers to kneel down to surrender, and could not break through the smaller and thicker encirclement of the Han army. At this moment, there were only less than eight thousand soldiers of the Western Chu army beside him.
"King! King!"
In the chaos, Zhou Lan, the general of the Western Chu army, rushed to Xiang Yu, who was walking on foot, knelt down on his knees, and shouted with tears in his eyes: "King, you can't rush out! Surrender, you and the King of Han are cousins. For the sake of your brothers, feet, and flesh, he will definitely not kill you! Surrender."
The shouts of killing on the battlefield were too loud. It was only after Zhou Lan shouted the above words again that Xiang Yu understood what he meant. He immediately burst into anger and roared with the bent steel spear tightly, "What did you say? Do you want me to surrender to the Han thief?"
"King, it's useless to continue fighting. I surrendered for the rest of our soldiers..., ah!"
Before Zhou Lan's crying and begging, Xiang Yu had already stabbed into his chest with a curved steel spear. After throwing away Zhou Lan's body, Xiang Yu strode forward again with one-eyed red eyes, roaring and rushing towards the crowd of Han soldiers like the ocean, "Follow me! Kill out of the siege! Take my life!"
After Xiang Yu went to fight in person, he did achieve certain results. He led the remaining soldiers of the Western Chu army to defeat the three intercepting cross-straits of the Han army in one breath. However, when Xiang Yu rushed towards the fourth cross-strait of the Han army, a huge sense of dizziness came again, making him unable to help but stagger and kneel on the battlefield full of blood corpses. He relied on time to support his body with steel spears, and did not completely fall.
"Master!"
The loyal guard immediately rushed up and used his body to block the spear and warriors that the Han soldiers stabbed in the air for Xiang Yu. However, Xiang Yu could no longer see clearly and hear the surrounding situation. In front of his blurry eyes, scenes of his past events when he was with Xiang Kang when he was young appeared...
In fact, at that time, Xiang Yu did not pay special attention to Xiang Kang, who was inconspicuous among the Xiang brothers. The most impressive thing was that he treated the thin Xiang Kang as a tripod and threw it into the sky to play with him. Once, because he did not catch it in time, he threw the young Xiang Kang so hard that he cried. He was scolded by Xiang Liang and his two aunts, and was punished not to eat the supper that day.
As time passed, Xiang Yu continued to remember the scene when he and Xiang Kang met again after many years of separation. At that time, Xiang Kang was already the famous young commander Xiang Yu was just a nameless general of the Jiangdong righteous army. However, Xiang Yu ignored Xiang Liang's repeated warnings and deliberately raised Xiang Kang, who was still thin, to the sky with one hand...
"Brother, it's because I didn't want to give you face at that time because I was jealous of you and wanted others to think that I was better than you, but I didn't expect that my jealousy and envy of you at that time was just the beginning. If you were not that powerful and outstanding, I would definitely not have reached this point with you, and I would definitely treat you like other brothers. You are indeed better than me and more powerful than me. I don't hate you, I just jealous of you and jealous of you, so I must be divided into a good position with you."
"But brother, even if you are better than me, it's useless. Asking me, brother, bow to you and beg for mercy. You are delusional. Even if I, Xiang Yu, die, will die vigorously and stand firm!"
After murmured, Xiang Yu stood up despite the fact that he was almost pitch black in front of him. He pushed away the guard who was supporting him with his feelings, shouted, and rushed forward again, "Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, is here! I want my head-level husband, come here!"
Even though he was on the verge of dying and stumbled into the Han army crowd, Xiang Yu still crazily defeated 20 Han army soldiers. However, accordingly, with the huge consumption of physical strength, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who had almost exhausted his blood, could no longer support him. Driven by his personal dignity, Xiang Yu could only roar again, use his last strength to swing a spear, smashed the Han army soldiers in front of him, and then threw down the seriously bent steel spear, and pulled out the sword at his waist...
"Brother, you won!"
After shouting out the last sentence of his life, Xiang Yu stood up straight, wiped his neck with a sword, then looked up at the sky, and stood firmly to welcome the arrival of death. Another past incident suddenly came to his mind. That night when he fell Xiang Kang and was punished not to have supper, Xiang Kang secretly gave him a bowl of meat porridge that his second uncle had made him into Xiang Yu's room.
A warm smile also appeared on the corner of Xiang Yu's mouth and stayed on Xiang Yu's face forever.
After the news of Xiang Yu's death came to Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang also cried loudly on the spot and almost fainted. In addition to being artificial and performing, many of Xiang Kang's crying came from the heart, because Xiang Kang knew very well that without Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's resolute rescue, he would never have been able to stop Zhang Han's army in Suiyang. If Xiang Yu had not led the princes to restrain the battlefield outside the pass, he would have never been able to imitate Liu Laosan in history and take the shortcut to Wuguan to destroy Qin. It can be said that if Xiang Yu had not had Xiang Yu, he would not have been who he is today.
Chapter completed!